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Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn
Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn is a first person horror game heavily inspired by Swedish folklore and the Nordic mythology to create the nightmares that's been haunting Swedish children for many generations.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“This was a fantastic horror game that kept me on the edge of my seat. It had high quality sound design, creative monster design, sufficient lore to keep me hooked, and well timed jump scares. I play a lot of horror games, but this one was really refreshing. 10/10.”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played“So far it lives up to the positive reviews, Unforgiving delivers on the promise of being scary, with unique mythological monsters, disturbing scenes and a well made world with classic design choices that lead to a fresh take on classic survival horror.”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“This was a great first game for these developers and really just had a great story with super cool monsters that never really slowed down, it was truly a very good horror experience with mythlogy that I am not too familiar with, super scary to me at least 7/10”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
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Latest official news
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Chat with the Devs of Unforgiving
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Soundtrack available and celebratory Dev Stream
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Horror · Indie · Adventure · Nudity · Action · Gore · Mythology · First-Person · Violent · Atmospheric · Singleplayer · Survival Horror (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Dutch, Russian, Swedish * , German, Portuguese - Brazil, Polish, Thai, Japanese * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 16 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://angrydemonstudio.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 32/64-bit Processor: Intel core i3 or equivalent AMD Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: GTX460m DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 4 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX compatible